Dear friends
Using a series of FEM applications I believe that the following topics are extremely necessary to have a competitive platform
Larger library of steels:
Although the steels have a very similar Young’s modulus and Poisson’s coefficient, it would be useful to have a variety of ASME steels with the assigned S-N curve
Safety factor: In spite of only dividing the equivalent effort with the yield limit, it is a tool that is very used to explain resistance.
It would be very useful as an output variable instead of determining it by postprocessor as paraview [Solved] Fatigue life prediction / Code_Aster usage / Code_Aster forums
Fatigue: Complementing the first point, to have the useful life would be in cyclic loads is completely necessary, to assign a useful life as a function of the effort is possible when generating an output variable to the VTK file. With other codes of lower capacity I have been able to determine in a very approximate but fast way the life of some components. I assign the curve s-n to a function and I assign it in paraview to the scalar of vonmises Stress.
Example:
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